COMMENTS BY RUEDIGER DAHLHAEUSER
Comments to the National Environmental Management Amendment Bill (36- 2007)
For
Attn, of. Ms, Albertina Kakaza
Please take my Objection and Comments on the Environmental Management Amendment
Bill of the third August 2007 as interested party and stakeholder:
To allow the Minister of Minerals and Energy to control and to evaluate in
future the environmental studies and investigations as so called
'Competent Authority', must be strictly to objected as the
Minister is not able to control himself. By the way, nobody can control
objectively himself.
Not in
The Evaluation of the environmental impact and consequences must be completely
in hands of environmental national or provincial departments and independent
environmental experts.
The responsibility and the task of the DME and the Minister is to coordinate and organize mining and the availability of
Energy and not to investigate and to evaluate environmental impacts and
consequences. They would run immediately into severe conflicts of interests.
Your's faithfully
Ruediger Dahlhaeuser